pycontrails.SAFBlend

class pycontrails.SAFBlend(pct_blend)

Bases: Fuel

Jet A-1 / Sustainable Aviation Fuel Blend.

SAF only changes the CO2 lifecycle emissions, not the CO2 emissions emitted at the aircraft exhaust. We assume that the EI OC stays the same as Jet A-1 fuel due to lack of data.

Parameters:

pct_blend (float) – Sustainable aviation fuel percentage blend ratio by volume, %. Expected to be in the interval [0, 100].

References

• [Teoh et al., 2022]

• [Schripp et al., 2022]

__init__(pct_blend)

Methods

__init__(pct_blend)

Attributes

fuel_name	Fuel Name
q_fuel	Lower calorific value (LCV) of fuel, \([J \ kg_{fuel}^{-1}]\)
hydrogen_content	Percentage of hydrogen mass content in the fuel
ei_co2	CO2 emissions index for fuel, \([kg_{CO_{2}} \ kg_{fuel}^{-1}]\)
ei_h2o	Water vapour emissions index for fuel, \([kg_{H_{2}O} \ kg_{fuel}^{-1}]\)
ei_so2	Sulphur oxide, SO2-S gas, emissions index for fuel, \([kg_{SO_{2}} \ kg_{fuel}^{-1}]\)
ei_sulphates	Sulphates, S(VI)-S particle, emissions index for fuel, \([kg_{S} \ kg_{fuel}^{-1}]\)
ei_oc	Organic carbon emissions index for fuel, \([kg_{OC} \ kg_{fuel}^{-1}]\)